HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Military systems integrators at Dynetics Inc. in Huntsville, Ala., needed mission-critical power electronics for a U.S. military research program that seeks to build swarms of drone aircraft. They found their solution from Milpower Source Inc. in Belmont, N.H.

Milpower Source is supplying Dynetics with several kinds of power converters for the Gremlins program of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va. DARPA Gremlins will rely on relatively inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in volley quantities to saturate enemy defenses, using military C-130 aircraft to launch drone swarsm of networked and cooperating unmanned aircraft for electronic attack and reconnaissance missions from standoff ranges, and then recover surviving drones when their missions are completed.

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